Petty Officer First Class Charlotte McShane, left, and Sergeant Missy Deschenes unveil the winning design for the national monument to Canada’s mission in Afghanistan in Ottawa on June 19.Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An architectural group that was chosen by a jury to build a monument to Canada\u2019s mission in Afghanistan says the government\u2019s decision to award the contract to a different group is outrageous and anti-democratic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Veterans Affairs Canada announced the approximately $3-million commission in June, awarding it to a team led by Indigenous artist Adrian Stimson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is so anti-democratic,\u201d said Renee Daoust, a spokesperson for Team Daoust, which placed first in the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey\u2019re not respecting their own procurement rules that they have set up, and to us that\u2019s really unacceptable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The team included the firm Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker, artist Luca Fortin and former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour, who acted as an adviser on the mission in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daoust said they learned they won the competition just a couple of hours before Veterans Affairs Canada held a press conference on June 19 \u2013 and then they were told the government was going to overrule the jury\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe said, \u2018Well, this is so unfair. Why are you doing this?\u201d\u2019 she said. (Globe and Mail, October 5, 2023)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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